Actress Hiam Abbass has spent her film career between France and the United States. She worked with Spielberg on Munich and Denis Villeneuve on Blade Runner 2049, and is best known for her role as Marcia Roy in the acclaimed tv series Succession. For the sake of her career, she left her family and her country at the age of 23, but years later began visiting her home village in Palestine with her daughter, Lina Soualem. Her daughter would go on to become a director and, based on family films made during the summer holidays, she made Bye Bye Tibériade, an intimate documentary that describes the meeting of four generations of women and their stories of separation.

Bye Bye Tibériade premiered at the Venice Film Festival, in the parallel section Giornate degli Autori, and had its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.